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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. EDB Postgres vs. Microsoft Access vs. Milvus vs. Postgres-XL

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitebangdb.comwww.enterprisedb.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessmilvus.iowww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBEnterpriseDBMicrosoft
Initial release20122005199220192014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 202114, December 20211902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20192.4.4, May 202410 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++CC++C++, GoC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenouser defined functions
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmhorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangenoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnoACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modenoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Role based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BangdbEDB PostgresMicrosoft AccessMilvusPostgres-XL
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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